Month: April 2009

This Yglesias post reflects a group of beliefs regarding public health that tend to cut across ideological lines, probably because they resonate with some deeply embedded cultural puritanism that affects both the right and the left in America. To simplify somewhat (but not much), the argument is roughly that health care costs so much because […]

Condoleeza Rice explaining why the use of harsh interrogation techniques was justified against Al Qaeda suspects, but not World War II German POWs: With all due respect, Nazi Germany never attacked the homeland of the United States In fact, the German Kriegsmarine sank approximately 600 US and Allied merchant vessels in and around US territorial […]

The best reaction I’ve seen to Michele Bachman’s undilutedly stupid musings on the “Hoot-Smalley” tariff: I hope she makes history lessons a regular part of her work in the House. I want to hear about how the Second World War II began when the Japanese bombed our base at Pearl Bailey in the Hawaiian Tropic, […]